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    23 hours ago

    Let’s look where the Taliban get their funding

    Oh would you look at that… Exactly what everyone expected…

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      21 hours ago

      Aren’t the Taliban broke, because Karzai spent two decades bankrupting the county while president?

      Also, too…

      Biden releases $7bn in frozen Afghan funds to split between 9/11 families and aid This article is more than 4 years old

      Money would go toward humanitarian efforts for Afghan people (spoilers: this never materialized) and to US victims of terrorism, keeping it out of hands of Taliban

      The last thing the US did before leaving was to clean out the country’s foreign currency reserves. This resulted in an enormous famine, skyrocketing child mortality, and a string of infrastructure failures as foreign trade ground to a halt.

      Very similar to what the US did in Iraq and Libya after officially withdrawing.